WELCOME TO MY SECONDARY II
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EVALUATION:
Evaluation is the means through which the extent of learning is measured. Because evaluation is directed towards the improvement of both teaching and learning, and because learning is not a lock-step event, methods of viewing progress over time is devised through a series of ongoing student feedback, assignments and tests. Formal examinations are also held in December, March and June.

GRAMMAR
1. NOUNS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding of:
a. common
b. proper
c. abstract
d. collective
e. singular and plural
f. possessive case
 

2. PRONOUNS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding of:
a. personal
b. compound personal
c. interrogative
d. demonstrative
e. possessive
f. indefinite
g. singular and plural

3. ADJECTIVES:
You must know the definition and have an understanding of:
a. descriptive
b. demonstrative
c. possessive
d. three degrees of comparison-positive, comparative, superlative
e. articles

4. VERBS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding of:
a. regular and irregular verbs
b. simple tenses
c. perfect tenses
d. auxiliary verbs (troublesome verbs)
e. agreement of subject and verb
f. sequence of tenses

5. ADVERBS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding of:
a. kinds of adverbs: time, manner, place, degree
b. comparison of adverbs

6. PREPOSITIONS:
prepositions and prepositional phrases
adjectival and adverbial phrases

7. CONJUNCTIONS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding

8. INTERJECTIONS:
You must know the definition and have an understanding

9. WRITING SKILLS:
a. simple
b. compound sentences
c. complex sentences
d. phrases and clauses
e. parallel structure

10. DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH:
a. punctuation: end points, capitalization, quotation marks for dialogue
b. paragraphs: topic sentence (ways of developing a paragraph)
c. descriptive, narrative and expository writing

11. SPELLING AND WORD ATTACK:
a. synonyms, antonyms, homonyms
b. abbreviations
c. vocabulary

12. LITERATURE:
You must know the elements of short stories:
a. setting
b. characterization
c. plot
d. conflict
e. flashback
f. foreshadowing
g. suspense
h. theme
i. point of view
j. mood and atmosphere

13. POETRY:
You must have an understanding and appreciation of:
a. imagery and sensory detail
b. literal and figurative language
c. simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration

14. NOVELS:
Several novels will be explored throughout the year. Here are a sample of two:
a. africanjourneytext.html
b. cuefortreasontext.html